Montenegrin Beauty
Within the framework of the “First Cultural Festival of Serbia and Montenegro” in Germany 2005, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting the group exhibition “Montenegrin Beauty”, contemporary art from Montenegro. Twelve artists from Montenegro will display numerous works dealing with a cliché that is ubiquitous in their homeland: the beauty of the country, its natural abundance […]
Shiro Masuyama
The installation created by the Japanese artist Shiro Masuyama offers a helpful sanctuary to those of us who attend exhibition openings only reluctantly, and who would prefer to escape to a secluded life when faced with their usual pugnacious atmosphere, generated by endless attempts to make a social impression and market one’s own work in […]
Ján Mancuska
Ján Mancuska, who is representing the Czech Republic at this year’s Biennale in Venice along with two other artists, has been working for some time now by using simple, everyday objects in the tradition of Arte Povera, but combines this form with a specifically Eastern European development of conceptual art in which language acquires a […]
René Lück
René Lück is an archaeologist of collective memory. His installations expose the hidden images and symbols that have been concealed in the deepest layers of our social memory, bringing them to the centre of our attention. In such work, Lück addresses chiefly objects and depictions which are regarded as symbols of political self-determination and have […]
Tamás Komoróczky
Dr. Sample is actually the documentation of a casting competition, which analyses the phenomenon of casting shows in the entertainment media in an enigmatic way. For his video installation, the Hungarian artist Tamás Komoróczky invited thirty people to supposedly compete for parts in a financial advertising spot. All the participants had to play the same […]
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh stages her art as a form of apparently casual, yet calculated theatre. In her hands, everyday places and objects, familiar situations and actions are transformed into astonishingly salient scenarios, and the audience must make sense of these. They are obliged to work out for themselves how the objects and actions confronting them came […]
Frank Kalero
In 2003, the “Asociación OjodePez” in Barcelona launched the magazine of documentary photography “OjodePez”. The association was founded by several photographers with the following declared aims: to internationally promote documentary photography with all its facets and to publish specific themes and photographic projects neglected in conventional media and publications due to a lack of apparent […]
Andrew Hurle
Andrew Hurle makes the technologies of mechanical and digital image reproduction into both the medium and subject of his work. This practice has developed from the simple use of technical reproductive apparatus into an intense observation of the structures and processes upon which this technology is founded. Hurle has a preference for already existing graphic […]
Ronnie van Hout
Ronnie van Hout’s artistic originality is sustained by his self irony and the cryptic humour with which he dismantles subjects such as finding identity, cultural affiliation and the search for self-realisation, all of which are usually so resistant to humour. Often the installations resemble distorted self-portraits of the artist, who appears within his own works […]
The Helsinki School
The exhibition “The Helsinki School – A New Approach” – a cooperative project between the Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH and the TaiK: University of Art and Design Helsinki – is a touring exhibition due to travel all over Europe. It intends to show a wider international audience the working methods of 22 artists trained in the […]